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:ranting:
in my zip file i heave only two file.....
one is .cue
and the second is .bin

HELP!!!!
is a fake file?

[JJXB]

.cue and .bin files are clonecd image files

[Tuttle]

Originally posted by buddy@Dec 24 2004, 04:23 AM
in my zip file i heave only two file.....
one is .cue
and the second is .bin

Yeah, you downloaded the wrong file. You should have a zip file with 6 files -- INSTALL.EXE, .DAT and .BIN, and TD123.X00, .X01 and .X02.

Try downloading the game again now -- I just re-checked the download and it's the right file.

[Weta]

Hi there,

I'm luckier than most, I can get the game to run flawlessly w/o DosBox or cpukiller under XP, but if you need running help you should also check the HOTU forums on the topic, they've had a variety of problems.

My problem is different. Over the course of the game I've encountered various glitches, some quite severe, but I have randomly worked around most of them (getting a close distance kills stuck units, for example). However, I am truly stuck on Chapter 3, Level 8.

Very minor mission spoilers here, this is a seemingly very easy mission where you have to fight 4/5 enemies and deliver some trucks to a building. Usually in this game you deliver trucks to outside the map, but since they have to reach this building instead of a straight road they simply get stuck in it and the game doesn't recognise that they are in the right place.

Similar to the ships they start oddly vibrating and I can't complete the mission, even if I kill all of the enemy ships. If I destroy the trucks, oddly, I fail the mission but get a cutscene upon my return detailing my failure before being prompted to retry the mission.

Any help would be appreciated, I'm soooo close to the end!

EDIT: I've solved the problem, it turns out I wasn't doing anything wrong, the game is just confusing in its presentation and you must press esc in the cutscene. Now I am stuck with the same problem on mission 10, and the trick doesn't work!

[The Fifth Horseman]

*hint* There is one mission that you cannot succeed no matter how hard you try. *hint*
It's rigged against you and you are SUPPOSED to fail it. One with the chopper, where you escort the truck convoy to the south. Even if you manage to get them all out (I managed to, after several attempts), you fail the mission. But the game lets you continue to the next level, cause it was supposed to happen anyway.

[Weta]

I'm past that mission, I'm still on Chapter 3 Mission 10, and the oddly vibrating truck stands between me and the finale! Still, I'm so glad to find this game after all these years... so many sites advertised having it but only but up the shareware, and now some 10 years since I first watched my jaw drop at this game's intense storyline I can re-live the whole shebang. Thanks again to whoever's responsible for the download.

[Tuttle]

I'd give DOSBox a try first, just in case there's some speed-related glitch.

If you still can't get through it, typing the following in the directory where you have TD2192 installed (from Windows, not DOSBox) will set the top savegame in Episode 3 to be at mission 11. That should let you keep going at least. You need to type this:

debug td3.sav
e 0100 0b
w
q

So you end up with this on the screen:

D:\TD>debug td3.sav
-e 0100 0b
-w
Writing 00046 bytes
-q

[Weta]

Thanks, DosBox fixed it and I finally completed the game.

Out of interest, though (# of levels spoiler, I don't know if this is important or not) I am wondering if anyone knows if there's a secret level anywhere in this game? It's just because the first two chapters are 20 levels and the third is 19 by my math.. I might be wrong, but I'm just curious.

[The Fifth Horseman]

All the episodes are 20 levels each. There is no secret level.

[Tuttle]

No, Weta is right -- the last mission in episode 3 is mission 19. If you hack a saved game to be at mission 20 the game won't run anything when you select Next Mission.